[ 1667] (TORNEL to the PUBLIC]
[Jose Maria Tomei, Mexico, lo the Public, December 30, 1835, stating that the government has positive information that armed expeditions are being organized in the United Stales in support of the _Texas rebels, and declaring that all foreigners who enter Mexico for the purpose of aiding the rebels will be treated as pirates.] (1668] (TORNEL to SANTA ANNA]
Ministry of War and Marine Central Section Desk No. 1.
Circular
Most Excellent Sir:
Under this dale I have notified all commandants-general and the principal governors and political chiefs of departments and territories as follows: "The supreme government has positive information that in the United States of the North public meetings are being held with the avowed purpose of arming expeditions against the Mexican nation, of helping those who have rebelled against this government, of encouraging civil war, and of bringing upon our territory all those evils attendant upon civil war. Some expeditions have already been organized in that republic-our former friend-such as the one conducted by the traitor Jose AntonioMejia to [the town of] Santa Anna in Tamaulipas and others on their way lo the coast of Texas. All kinds of war supplies have been sent to the said coast; and, due to this censurable procedure, the rebellious colonists have been able to carry on a war against the nation that has showered so many favors upon them. The supreme government has the most positive assurance that these acts, censured by the wise laws of the United States of the North, have merited the consequent disapproval of that governme_nt with which we maintain the best understanding and an unalterable harmony. The speculators and adventurers ha\'e
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